 Plague, above 40,000 servants were dismissed, and turned into the streets to perish, for no one would receive them into their houses; and the villages near London drove them away with pitch-forks and fire-arms. Sir John Lawrence supported them all, as...  Conversations and amusing tales [by H. English]. - Page 285by Harriet English - 1799 - 385 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Pinnock - Readers (Elementary) - 1822 - 252 pages
...disease was known with certainty to be the plague, above forty-thousand servants were dismissed, arid turned into the streets to perish : for no one would receive them into their houses ; and the villagers, near London, drove them away with pitch-forks and fire-arms. 7. Sir John Lawrence supported... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - Botany - 1824 - 246 pages
...health, With soft assuasive eloquence expands Power's rigid heart, and opes his clenching hands; missed, and turned into the streets to perish, for no one...them into their houses ; and the villages near London drove them away with pitch-forks and fire-arms. Sir John Lawrence supported them all, as well as the... | |
 | Miscellaneous extracts - 1839 - 390 pages
...saw them executed. The day after the disease was known with certainty to be the plague, above 40,000 servants were dismissed, and turned into the streets...one would receive them into their houses, and the villagers near London drove them away with pitch-forks and firearms. Sir John Lawrence supported them... | |
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